The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

Speaking in the Commons this week, Foreign Office Minister Stephen Doughty said: “Both sides remain committed to concluding a deal on the future of the Chagos archipelago, which protects the ...